Researching Emil Lang
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The name Emil means "industrious" and is of German origin.
Records of Emil Lang on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Emil Lang and the Lang Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Lang Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Lang family tree.
Investigate Parish Records for Emil Lang at Find My Past.
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Lang Genealogy Databases
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Lang Forums
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Miscellaneous Lang Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Emil Lang. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Emil Lang
Emil Lang
Emil Lang (14 January 1909 – 3 September 1944), nicknamed "Bully", was a Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. Lang was credited with 173 aerial victories—144 on the Eastern Front, 29 on the Western Front—and one Soviet MTB sunk in 403 combat missions.
Posted to a fighter wing on the Eastern Front, Lang claimed his first aerial victories in March 1943. He was credited with 72 victories in a three-week period, among them an unsurpassed total of 18 on 3 November 1943. He received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 22 November 1943 for his 119 victories to that time. By March 1944, his claims totaled 144, for which he received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves on 11 April 1944. Transferred to the Western Front, he claimed his 150th victim during the Normandy Invasion on 14 June 1944. He scored his last three victories on 26 August 1944; on 3 September 1944, he was killed in action over Belgium.
Source: Emil Lang, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Lang
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